FLOE-216: Add TTS-supporting markup to the HTML content

Metadata

Source
FLOE-216
Type
Task
Priority
Major
Status
Closed
Resolution
Won't Fix
Assignee
Anastasia Cheetham
Reporter
Anastasia Cheetham
Created
2014-08-14T10:29:56.763-0400
Updated
2015-04-23T13:33:52.322-0400
Versions
N/A
Fixed Versions
N/A
Component
  1. EPUB

Description

The HTML content of the EPUB samples will need mark-up embedded in it to support effecting TTS, for example instructions for voicing units of measurement live velocity. We will also look into audio stylesheets as part of this.

Comments

  • Anastasia Cheetham commented 2014-08-21T16:02:33.472-0400

    This is not looking promising. As with other attributes, pandoc is stripping off lots of the things that need to be present for TTS support (see https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1555) but even if the markup is forcefully added to the EPUB resource, Mac OS X's TTS doesn't pay any attention to it.

  • Anastasia Cheetham commented 2014-08-27T11:21:39.025-0400

    It seems none of the possible voicing technologies currently pay any attention to the lexicons or SSML, so we'll stick with the <abbr> elements, which at least some screen readers honour.